Ohgosh, I just have to show this to those in my 'hood who may have missed this when Kirk posted this yesterday.
Unbeaaaaaarable cutenesses!!! -
Call it mothers intuition. I woke up at six thirty this morning. I nearly went back to sleep, but I thought I'd just wander out to the kitchen first.
The fridge was open, and food was scattered in a little line leading to the door in our window where das weezels access their outdoor pen. Feck.
So, nearly an hour later I've rescued mushrooms, celery and carrots from the cage, and am fully awake. Stuffin is staring sleepily up at me from his sleeping box, after having spent most of my cleaning time roaming around inside my sweater, or perching like a pirate's parrot on my shoulder.
I love him so much, but I really really wish he wasn't such a Bad Egg.
He's been lying in my lap while I check the email. Very unusual for Weez, he usually only lies still for his Papa. Stuffin' is Mama's boy. However, today I have the affections of The Weez, perhaps because I took him out walking in the woods yesterday.
He also has the hiccups. Ferret hiccups are SO SO cute!
You sleeps in da doorway...
...you expects to be trampled.
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
One of the nicest people I know is Cathleen McLain. I went to her birthday party this year, and people who have known her for month or decades all said the same things: "This is how you helped me out Cathy, this is how you supported me, this is what a great artist you are" Oh yes, they also said she was a crazy woman in the nicest possible kind of crazy, which is even better as far as I'm concerned. :P
Someone was very not nice to Cathy today. That offends me, especially as she took time out of a day when she was tired and busy to help me out. She's helped me out in so many ways - introducing me to the best shows in the state, paying my way for some of them as I got established living in a new place, and getting me into some very good shows at the last minute last year. She's bailed me out financially when I got into a bad space, and gave me groceries this week because I'm struggling a little in this transition time between the two jobs, and after the furlough I had to have last month in my current job.
Apart from everything else, she just makes the most gorgeous art. I love her paintings, and I swear I'll own some of her jewelry one day, just as soon as I get promoted into a better paying position at my new job.
For the moment though, the best thanks I can think of is to show you her amazing work. You should head off to her etsy shop and see what she has around. If you are in Connecticut, we'll both be at Open Studio at the Hartford ArtSpace November 14 and 15.
Especially check out her wonderful pins with the converter to change them into a pendant. They are just awesome!!!!
So if you're a pretty nice person, and ever had someone be unjustifiably horrid to you, take your revenge right now. Support the wonderful, generous, fantastic artist (and beautiful friend) - and buy some of Cathy's jewelry, or just leave a comment here telling her how great she is (she drops by this blog, she'll see it). :D
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
If you say something to someone - something that you feel the need to express about your feelings and what you need from them - and you know that they will probably express great hurt at both what you express and what you intend to do, who is responsible for their pain?
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
